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The Socialist Party of America is a socialist political party in the United States. It was formed in 1901 by a merger between the Social Democratic Party of Eugene V. Debs, formed three years earlier by veterans of the Pullman Strike of the American Railway Union, and a wing of the older Socialist Labor Party. Election poster for Eugene V. Debs, Socialist Party of America candidate for President, 1904
1 Prominent members
Prominent members included Victor L. Berger, Ella Reeve Bloor , Earl Browder, James Connolly, Eugene V. Debs, Elizabeth Gurley Flynn , William Z. Foster, Bill Haywood, Morris Hillquit , Helen Keller, Jack London, Theresa S. Malkiel , Mary E. Marcy , Scott NearingScott Nearing ( August 6, 1883 August 24, 1983) was an American conservationist, peace activist, educator and writer. Born in Kittanning, Pennsylvania, Nearing is still viewed as a radical 20 years after his death. In 1954 he co-authored Living the Good L, Kate Richards O'Hare , Mary White OvingtonMary White Ovington (born April 11, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York 1951) was a civil rights leader. Her parents, members of the Unitarian Church were supporters of women's rights and had been involved in anti-slavery movement. Educated at Packer Collegiate In, A. Philip RandolphAsa Philip Randolph ( April 15, 1889 May 16, 1979) was a socialist active in the labor movement and the US civil rights movement. He was born in Crescent City, Florida. His father was a minister of the A. Church who moved the family to Jacksonville, Flori, John ReedJohn Reed, (1751-1831), U. politician John Reed, (1781-1860), U. politician, son of the above John Reed, (1887-1920), journalist John F. Jack) Reed, (1949- ), U. politician, senator John Shepard Reed, Chairman of the New York Stock Exchange, former Chairm, Victor Reuther , Walter ReutherWalter Philip Reuther (b. September 1, 1907, Wheeling, West Virginia d. May 10, 1970, Pellston, Michigan) was an American labor leader. The son of a socialist brewery worker from West Virginia, he was the most ambitious and successful of three brothers wh, Bayard RustinBayard Rustin ( March 17, 1912 August 24, 1987) was an African-American civil rights activist, important largely behind the scenes in the American civil rights movements of the 1960s and earlier. He counseled Martin Luther King, Jr. on the techniques of n, Carl SandburgCarl Sandburg ( January 6, 1878 July 22, 1967), American poet, historian, novelist, and folklorist. He was born in Galesburg, Illinois by Swedish parents and died in Flat Rock, North Carolina. Mencken called Carl Sandburg "indubitably an American in every, Margaret Sanger, Upton Sinclair, Rose Pastor Stokes , Norman Thomas and Frank P. Zeidler.
2 Early History
Before World War I, it elected two Members of Congress, over 70 mayors, and many state legislators and city councilors. Opposition to the war reduced its popularity among native Americans, while its best-known member, Debs, was imprisoned on treason charges. But by 1919, bouyed by increases in membership in its language federations from areas involved in the Bolshevik Revolution such as Finland, Russia, Poland and the Ukraine membership topped 100,000.
